Oracle VM VirtualBox: Ticket #10267: virtualbox does not work with Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267
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After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.8, Virtualbox no longer works. The issue relates to starting a VM. During the boot process, the entire computer hangs and requires restarting. From looking on the forums, it looks like others are having this problem.
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While it would be great to have this issue fixed, at a minimum, virtualbox should check if it is running on 10.8 and display a dialog saying that this is not supported (this is what vmware does). Then closer to the launch of 10.8, this issue could get resolved.
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Trac 0.12sorinSat, 07 Apr 2012 17:34:21 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:1
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:1
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Some bug on OS X 10.8 DP2 and <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> 4.1.12
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TicketfrankFri, 27 Apr 2012 08:26:59 GMTpriority, version changedhttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:2
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:2
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<li><strong>priority</strong>
changed from <em>major</em> to <em>critical</em>
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<li><strong>version</strong>
changed from <em>VirtualBox 4.1.8</em> to <em>VirtualBox 4.1.14</em>
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Just to update this ticket: This is still not fixed with VirtualBox 4.1.14, sorry. We are working on a fix. When we have something to test then we will provide a test build.
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TicketfrankMon, 30 Apr 2012 19:22:02 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:3
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:3
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Could you check if the test build from the <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads">Downloads</a> page fixes your problems?
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TicketpklausTue, 01 May 2012 12:05:55 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:4
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:4
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I tested the new build (<a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a>-4.1.15-77703) on OS X 10.8 (Developer Preview 3).
When I tried to start Virtualbox, it said:
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You can't use this version of the application <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> with this version of OS X.
You have <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> 4.1.15.
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I could, however, start <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> by directly running it from Terminal like this:
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<pre class="wiki">/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox
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This enabled me to start <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> successfully and also to run a virtual machine that was created with Virtualbox on the older OS X 10.7. It worked quite well - a little laggy maybe. I didn't test creating new virtual machines so far.
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So the kernel panic is definitely gone! Thanks a lot!
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TicketHachimanTue, 01 May 2012 12:47:01 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:5
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:5
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Replying to <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:4" title="Comment 4 for Ticket #10267">pklaus</a>:
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I tested the new build (<a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a>-4.1.15-77703) on OS X 10.8 (Developer Preview 3).
When I tried to start Virtualbox, it said:
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You can't use this version of the application <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> with this version of OS X.
You have <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> 4.1.15.
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To avoid this message and able to lunch <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> from Luncher.app or Finder.app you can alter /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist file.
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TicketsorinTue, 01 May 2012 15:33:41 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:6
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:6
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I can also confirm that this new build seems to work on OS X 10.8 DP3
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TicketfrankWed, 02 May 2012 19:30:00 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:7
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:7
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Thanks for the feedback! And indeed, on Mac OS X, Mountain Lion Preview 3 you have to start the VirtualBox GUI from the command line. This is a temporary restriction from Apple.
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TicketsorinWed, 02 May 2012 19:34:38 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:8
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:8
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Replying to <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:7" title="Comment 7 for Ticket #10267">frank</a>:
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Thanks for the feedback! And indeed, on Mac OS X, Mountain Lion Preview 3 you have to start the VirtualBox GUI from the command line. This is a temporary restriction from Apple.
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Let's put it this way: this is a protection added by Apple to protect the OS from being crashed due to VIrtualBox. Now that the bug seems to be fixed, all you have is to increase the version number of the beta release of VIrtualBox to 4.2 to solve this problem. I cannot blame the Apple engineer that added 4.2 instead of 4.1.15 because they wouldn't expect you to fix the bug so soon :)
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TicketfrankWed, 02 May 2012 19:41:11 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:9
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:9
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Yes, i know. We are trying to convince Apple to lift the restriction for VBox 4.1.
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TicketjgsMon, 21 May 2012 19:31:04 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:10
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:10
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is the diff for this new build available somewhere?
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TicketfrankTue, 22 May 2012 13:58:52 GMTstatus changed; resolution sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:11
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:11
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changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em>
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set to <em>fixed</em>
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The diff contains of several changesets. If you are really interested I can list them here. But you can also fetch the source code of VirtualBox 4.1.16 containing the fix. (4.1.16 is just about to be released.)
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TicketgrahamperrinTue, 29 May 2012 12:56:22 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:12
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:12
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Replying to <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10267#comment:9" title="Comment 9 for Ticket #10267">frank</a>:
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The fix in version 4.1.16 of <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> seems effective with Build 12A206j of Developer Preview 3 of OS X 10.8.
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(Command line and <tt>Exceptions.plist</tt> workarounds are not required.)
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Big thanks to the developers.
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